October 03, 2008
The Poetry of Sarah Palin
Hart Seely in Slate:
Thursday's nationally televised debate with Democrat Joe Biden could give Palin the chance to cement her reputation as one of the country's most innovative practitioners of what she calls "verbiage."
The poems collected here were compiled verbatim from only three brief interviews. So just imagine the work Sarah Palin could produce over the next four (or eight) years.
"You Can't Blink"
You can't blink.
You have to be wired
In a way of being
So committed to the mission,
The mission that we're on,
Reform of this country,
And victory in the war,
You can't blink.So I didn't blink.
(To C. Gibson, ABC News, Sept. 11, 2008)
More here. And see also Diagramming Sarah's Sentences, also in Slate, also. [Thanks to Karen Ballentine.]
Posted by Abbas Raza at 05:04 AM | Permalink
Comments
Love the "Diagramming" piece and will continue to love it unless she becomes the next Vice President...it won't be so funny then.
Posted by: PeteChapman | Oct 4, 2008 11:55:39 AM
Let's not "normalize" Sarah's discourse. She didn't say McCain's "verbiage", but his "verbage", which I had thought was not a word, until I looked it up and found that it was a recognized conflation of "verbiage" and "garbage" - how apt for McCain, and how suitable an aspiration for Sarah: impure, rather than pure, garbage!
Posted by: Martin Bento | Oct 5, 2008 4:45:42 AM
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